Am 30.11.2014 00:35, schrieb Cousin Ricky:
> As a rule, I don't use named colors in computer applications, because I am
> convinced that the bureaucrats who assign colors to names are colorblind.

Just overly creative I'd say - someone invents "the colours of this 
year's season", and they need to have /some/ name.


> About 2 years ago, I wrote a scene to plot the stock colors in a 3-D HSL
> structure, just to get an idea of how they were distributed.  After seeing all
> the colors at once, labeled, it occurred to me:  What if the colors were
> assigned using gamma 2.2 or sRGB?  After all, I had gotten the sense that
> assumed_gamma was a fairly new feature at the time I discovered POV-Ray, and it
> would seem reasonable that the colors were not assigned with linear rendering in
> mind.

That is exactly the case.
Well, to be more precise, those colors were assigned using just whatever 
freakin' gamma the author's system happened to exhibit; whether that was 
2.2 or 1.8 or whatever is up for speculation.

Good work on this stuff!

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